Departure turns the data export Facebook gives you into a private, browsable archive of your life, right in your browser. Nothing is ever uploaded. Nothing is ever tracked.
Try it now, it's freeNo account, no install. Browse your last 12 months free, £2.99 once to unlock everything. Prefer email updates instead?
Every person we've talked to about leaving Facebook gets stuck on the same two things.
"If I delete my account, I lose everything."
Fifteen years of photos, messages, and moments you forgot you'd even posted. Gone, unless you do something about it first.
"Even if I download my data, I can't actually see it."
Facebook's own export is a folder of hundreds of raw HTML files and unsorted photos: technically yours, practically unusable.
Three steps. No installs, no accounts, no waiting.
From Facebook's own settings, we'll show you exactly where to click.
Right here in your browser. That's the whole install process.
A real timeline, your photo albums, your Instagram. Then delete your account whenever you're ready.
Everything (unzipping, processing, browsing) happens locally in your own browser. Your photos and messages are never uploaded, never stored on a server, never seen by us. There's no server in the loop at all.
For the technically curious: open your browser's network tab while using Departure. You won't see your archive data go anywhere, because it doesn't.
Everything that made your archive worth keeping, actually usable again.
Every post, photo, and video in a real scrollable feed, newest to oldest.
Every album you ever created, browsable the way it was meant to be seen.
Bring both exports in: one archive for your whole social history.
One honest price. No ads, no subscription, no data harvesting. That's how we make money, full stop.
Browse the last 12 months of your archive with no payment and no signup wall: enough to see, with your own eyes, that Departure actually works with your export.
Unlock your entire timeline, every album, every year. One payment, yours forever. No subscription, no recurring charge, ever.
No. Departure is an independent project, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Meta Platforms, Inc. We simply help you make sense of the data export Facebook already gives you.
Not at all. Plenty of people use Departure just to have a nicer way to browse their own archive, with no plans to leave Facebook at all.
Browsing your most recent year is free, no signup required: enough to see it actually works with your export. Unlocking your full archive is a one-time payment of £2.99. No subscription, no recurring charge, no ads.
Yes. Nothing is ever uploaded, transmitted, or stored anywhere but your own device. That's not a policy promise. It's how the product is built.
Yes, Departure supports both Facebook and Instagram data exports.